tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95653362015-07-15T08:09:50.304-04:00UNESCO In the Spotlight: Education and CultureThis blog seeks to spotlight noteworthy UNESCO education and culture programs; it emphasizes links between the United States and UNESCO.John Dalynoreply@blogger.comBlogger2109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-18601886538438302812015-06-24T14:23:00.001-04:002015-06-24T14:23:40.310-04:00Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1459">Photos of the Inca Road, recently declared by UNESCO to be World Heritage:</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10150687_671345866274155_6741219067414825588_n.jpg?oh=14652894ec3e5c659e109bb60c379b8f&amp;oe=561D3180" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10150687_671345866274155_6741219067414825588_n.jpg?oh=14652894ec3e5c659e109bb60c379b8f&amp;oe=561D3180" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/10492254_671345959607479_2661302304739065277_n.jpg?oh=0911367ae76484100fcbbb16659a500e&amp;oe=5624CAA4" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/10492254_671345959607479_2661302304739065277_n.jpg?oh=0911367ae76484100fcbbb16659a500e&amp;oe=5624CAA4" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10489713_671346056274136_1594469468169966085_n.jpg?oh=fdb23c66ba1dc8b5bfd5da84cdafb88d&amp;oe=5623697A" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10489713_671346056274136_1594469468169966085_n.jpg?oh=fdb23c66ba1dc8b5bfd5da84cdafb88d&amp;oe=5623697A" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10394798_671346176274124_3678260605102406158_n.jpg?oh=48c4bcbc0c1a2e007be719cfa1589e21&amp;oe=561A04F9" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10394798_671346176274124_3678260605102406158_n.jpg?oh=48c4bcbc0c1a2e007be719cfa1589e21&amp;oe=561A04F9" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10405267_671336142941794_5545489641522946021_n.jpg?oh=7fb77b0574b15c5db228226d2c9b411f&amp;oe=55EB7609" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10405267_671336142941794_5545489641522946021_n.jpg?oh=7fb77b0574b15c5db228226d2c9b411f&amp;oe=55EB7609" width="530" /></a></div><br />Photos from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mincu.pe?fref=photo">the Facebook page of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture</a>.</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-28486447759344783542015-05-23T08:56:00.001-04:002015-05-23T08:56:10.334-04:00Even in Washington DC in Support of Tyre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8666667938232px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;">International Association to Save Tyre</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8666667938232px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">and</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8666667938232px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;">American Committee for Tyre</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Cooperation with</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">Congressman Charles Boustany</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">Invite you to an exceptional event</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">dedicated to the Phoenician Metropolis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 28pt;"><a href="http://www.actyre.com/">TYRE</a></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 24pt;">@</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 24pt;">THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Northeast Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. 20540</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">Wednesday, June 3<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span>, 2015</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #5f264f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">Symposium, Tyre Book Display, Reception</span></i></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-38797692591009786432015-05-20T19:29:00.001-04:002015-05-20T19:29:21.648-04:00The Ancient Ruins at Palmyra Must Be Saved<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/1795766_10153314222948390_7478039019720234440_n.png?oh=53a9e592be73060c08d4376eab944ae8&amp;oe=55C568E7" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/1795766_10153314222948390_7478039019720234440_n.png?oh=53a9e592be73060c08d4376eab944ae8&amp;oe=55C568E7" width="640" /></a></div><br />UNESCO Director-General calls for immediate cessation of hostilities in #WorldHeritage Palmyra. “I am deeply concerned by the situation at the site of Palmyra. The fighting is putting at risk one of the most significant sites in the Middle East, and its civilian population” <a href="http://ow.ly/Ncw42">http://ow.ly/Ncw42</a> #Unite4Heritage ﻿</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-9570675416434951902015-05-14T08:06:00.003-04:002015-05-14T08:06:52.761-04:00Cultural Heritage is All Around Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11142427_10153294191703390_609263552720285416_n.png?oh=3da4fc3e24699a65b92e61036c76550a&amp;oe=55C52AA7" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11142427_10153294191703390_609263552720285416_n.png?oh=3da4fc3e24699a65b92e61036c76550a&amp;oe=55C52AA7" width="640" /></a></div><br />Cultural heritage is much more than buildings and monuments – it's something you find everywhere! From books and objects, to music and dance, to skills and cultural practices, why not share with UNESCO the examples of cultural heritage that are important to you? #Unite4Heritage <a href="http://www.unite4heritage.org/">www.unite4heritage.org</a> — with René Friede.</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-47986918513738683172015-05-14T08:01:00.003-04:002015-05-14T08:01:46.522-04:00Egypt and World Heritage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11066771_10153297856238390_2714084952339496112_n.png?oh=27e0821a42fa22f6b0499e7714724022&amp;oe=55C1AEE6" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11066771_10153297856238390_2714084952339496112_n.png?oh=27e0821a42fa22f6b0499e7714724022&amp;oe=55C1AEE6" width="640" /></a></div><br />Egypt holds a special place in UNESCO's history. The country defined the gold standard in intl cooperation for safeguarding the common heritage of humanity - it's where the #WorldHeritage idea was born. This is precisely the spirit we need to instill today. Together we #Unite4Heritage to defeat extremism &amp; hatred <a href="http://ow.ly/MW9Zy">http://ow.ly/MW9Zy</a></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-27787716327269781722015-04-30T04:29:00.001-04:002015-04-30T04:29:40.294-04:00International Jazz Day -- April 30, 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11200620_10153269938663390_2669095631307842304_n.jpg?oh=44537e77578699a318cd93536c6037ab&amp;oe=55DC3381" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11200620_10153269938663390_2669095631307842304_n.jpg?oh=44537e77578699a318cd93536c6037ab&amp;oe=55DC3381" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">4/30: Follow on FB and Instagram for a jazzy ode to @Paris, @IntlJazzDay host city&nbsp;<a href="https://instagram.com/unesco/">https://instagram.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>unesco/&nbsp;</a><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldheritage" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#WorldHeritage</a></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="fcg" style="color: #9197a3;">&nbsp;— with&nbsp;<span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100007807056005&amp;type=mediatag&amp;media_info=6.10153269938663390" data-tag="100007807056005" href="https://www.facebook.com/sahyadri.bharati" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Sahyadri Bharati</a></span>.</span></span></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-71504783769617293312015-04-24T17:49:00.003-04:002015-04-24T17:49:46.084-04:00UNESCO World Heritage Sites Can Be a Refuge for Great Apes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11182134_10153253020018390_8092320451378948995_n.jpg?oh=7f03c37777829e335a3c1a5617696a3b&amp;oe=55A2E4F3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11182134_10153253020018390_8092320451378948995_n.jpg?oh=7f03c37777829e335a3c1a5617696a3b&amp;oe=55A2E4F3" width="452" /></a></div><br />Infographic: Great apes occur in 16 #WorldHeritage sites, Sadly, many of the sites face extreme pressure from development &amp; exploitation of natural resources. We must protect the sites from further degradation and loss of habitat to ensure the safeguarding of viable great ape populations all around the world.<br /><br />Download high resolution version &amp; learn more here: <a href="http://ow.ly/M0Jhz">http://ow.ly/M0Jhz</a></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-87883027998387468562015-04-24T03:46:00.001-04:002015-04-24T03:46:18.351-04:00Happy World Book and Copyright Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QbVaLWK760E/VTn0dpSH-4I/AAAAAAAADO4/I7dWHlLFUEY/s1600/11110298_10153252645473390_7203330559230812682_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QbVaLWK760E/VTn0dpSH-4I/AAAAAAAADO4/I7dWHlLFUEY/s1600/11110298_10153252645473390_7203330559230812682_n.jpg" height="612" width="640" /></a></div><br />Books – learning and reading -- have become targets for those who denigrate culture and education, who reject dialogue and tolerance. In recent months, we have seen attacks on children at school and the public burning of books.We must redouble efforts to promote the book, the pen, the computer, along with all forms of reading and writing, in order to fight illiteracy and poverty, to build sustainable societies, to strengthen the foundations of peace. April 23 is World Book &amp; Copyright Day. <a href="http://ow.ly/LWYch%20#bookday">http://ow.ly/LWYch #bookday</a></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-65039806920427375282014-11-06T17:10:00.000-05:002014-11-06T17:10:04.784-05:00Annual Meeting of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting with be held in the Loy Henderson Conference room at the Department of State on&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><u><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_811489988" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><br /></span></span></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><u><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_811489988" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday, December 5, 2014 from 9:30am to 4:30pm</span></span></u></b></span></div><div class="aSS" style="height: 22px; left: 177.33332824707px; position: absolute; top: 104.33332824707px; visibility: hidden; width: 250px;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a break for lunch at&nbsp;<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_811489990" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12pm</span></span>.&nbsp; The meeting is open to the public so please feel free to share with interested parties. Anyone planning on attending must RSVP’s to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:dcunesco@state.gov" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">dcunesco@state.gov</a>&nbsp;in order to facilitate entry into the building.</span><u></u><u></u><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">U.S. Ambassador Crystal Nix-Hines is scheduled to speak with the Commission and discuss U.S. engagement with UNESCO along with her priorities.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">State Department UNESCO watchers also look forward to discussing UNESCO programs and partnerships continuing to grow in the U.S. such as World Heritage, Creative Cities, the University/UNITWIN Chair Program and the Category II Centers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">We all are looking forward to the 70<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Anniversary of UNESCO and how to best participate as a community.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.unesco.org/70years#view-display-id-section4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://en.unesco.org/70years#<wbr></wbr>view-display-id-section4</a>.&nbsp;</span></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-14301912821109214852014-11-06T16:56:00.000-05:002014-11-06T16:56:27.479-05:00University World Heritage Programs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/faq/">UNESCO's World Heritage Center identifies several universities offering World Heritage programs</a>:<br /><br /><div style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; padding: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Africa</span></div><ul style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cameroon: Ecole de faune de Garoua/Garoua Wildlife School</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">United Republic of Tanzania: Mweka College of African Wildlife Management</span></li></ul><div style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; padding: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asia and the Pacific</span></div><ul style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japan: Tsukuba University</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Australia: Deakin University (Melbourne)</span></li></ul><div style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; padding: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Europe and North America</span></div><ul style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Germany: <a href="http://www.tu-cottbus.de/fakultaet2/de/whs/">Brandenburger University of Technology, Cottbus (BTU)</a></span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ireland: University College Dublin (UCD)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none url(http://whc.unesco.org/styles/images/bg_li_content_content.gif); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Russian Federation: Moscow State M.V. Lomonosov University</span></div></li></ul><div><span style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/worldheritage.htm">The U.S. National Park Service has identified a couple of similar programs</a>:</span></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px;">The University of Florida <a href="http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/">College of Design, Construction and Planning</a> offers&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation/paris/about">World Heritage in Practice: Paris</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The University of Minnesota has a <a href="http://worldheritage.design.umn.edu/">Center for World Heritage Studies</a></span></li></ul><div>The University of California, Merced also has a <a href="http://catalog.ucmerced.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=2&amp;poid=162">World Heritage Program</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some additional sites were <a href="http://unescoeducation.blogspot.com/2013/07/world-heritage-university-level.html">listed in my post in 2013</a>.</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.6879997253418px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-39909391483225569712014-09-16T17:10:00.001-04:002014-09-16T17:10:30.525-04:00New UNESCO Chair at GWU<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://gsehd.gwu.edu/sites/gsehd.gwu.edu/files/styles/medium-hero/public/image/about%20us.jpg?itok=L6FWbpo0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://gsehd.gwu.edu/sites/gsehd.gwu.edu/files/styles/medium-hero/public/image/about%20us.jpg?itok=L6FWbpo0" height="122" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><a href="http://gsehd.gwu.edu/">The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development</a> will soon host a UNESCO Chair for International Education for Development.<br /><br />The inauguration of the Chair is to be held on Friday, September 19th, with the keynote address by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova.&nbsp;</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-87050250660764281422014-09-15T22:17:00.003-04:002014-09-15T22:17:31.827-04:00Literacy in the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="visually_embed"><img alt="Literacy for Sustainable Development " class="visually_embed_infographic" src="http://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/literacy-for-sustainable-development_5409e4b5b0eca_w540.jpg" /><br /><div class="visually_embed_cycle">by <a href="http://www.unesco.org/?utm_source=visually_embed" target="_blank">unesco</a>.</div><script class="visually_embed_script" id="visually_embed_script_175949" src="http://a.visual.ly/api/embed/175949?width=540" type="text/javascript"></script></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-45011568184011924212014-08-26T16:25:00.000-04:002014-08-26T16:25:18.084-04:00UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music Released by Smithsonian Folkways <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/images/find_recordings/unesco-album-quilt_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.folkways.si.edu/images/find_recordings/unesco-album-quilt_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;">Originally published between 1961 and 2003 but until now out of print, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">UNESCO Collecti</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">on of Traditional Music is composed of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect" style="font-size: 10pt;">more than 125 albums&nbsp;</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">from around the world. The entire collection, including many previously unreleased recordings, will be published by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in both digital and physical formats. Two albums will be published per week</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. With recordings from</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;over 70 nations, the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music offers an impressive diversity of material. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To access the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">recordings:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001jGnNUYx0vR7-Ku8XxILGli7pBQArZN4OVjkU7e3mzyRVqwlb090tUssCVGwuA7H5fnDeHEk__V6Q3TsZniKL7d9avTTHHeSIkHgIvUYuYb2wg1A7SmW6eWkkJFLSfQQhqHM0nGDf59eFrP8S702iwIAIFZjy1FTRmXbdwXSeN5Uosfi_HrFK5A==&amp;c=x6eQKsgOvbh5VY5TSu5X9lIZ4cEDTO1YfgBby6V9rhm2Y97v3utLWg==&amp;ch=ihLBeYrB9mVcU6CS_8C2Gwv9DzkIV_YEeUsXKCw1gY9fwaL_8fxATw==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>folkways.si.edu/unesco</a></span></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-54889618305560003802014-08-26T16:17:00.002-04:002014-08-26T16:18:46.765-04:00Release of UNESCO “Teaching Respect for All” Educational Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos.state.gov/libraries/unesco/231771/images/TRA%20cover%20pg_001.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://photos.state.gov/libraries/unesco/231771/images/TRA%20cover%20pg_001.png" /></a></div>On July 17, 2014, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the successful completion and release of the Teaching Respect for All (TRA) implementation guide, a set of guidelines and materials for educators to integrate into existing curricula to promote tolerance and respect for all regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. This initiative was co-sponsored by the governments of the United States and Brazil and began work in January 2012.<br /><br />“The U.S. and Brazil are deeply committed to promoting universal human rights by confronting discrimination and violence in all forms” said U.S. Mission to UNESCO Chargé d’Affaires Beth Poisson. “Both of our countries continue to face the legacy of a struggle for civil rights and racial equality. We know that it is critical that we continue to educate future generations on how to achieve tolerance and respect for all people, regardless of color, gender, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, or creed.”<br /><br />The joint initiative was launched by the United States and Brazil through UNESCO and was announced by President Obama during his visit to Brazil in 2011. &nbsp;Funded by the United States, this initiative has culminated in the TRA Implementation Guide, a compilation of best practices from around the world that were piloted in diverse environments, including Brazil, Cote d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, and South Africa. This multilateral, comprehensive approach was important to ensuring the guide can be adapted to states’ varied national and local contexts, policy priorities, and social and cultural backgrounds.<br /><br />To read the complete Teaching Respect for All Implementation Guidelines, visit <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002279/227983E.pdf">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002279/227983E.pdf</a><br /><br />To hear testimonials from policymakers, teachers, and students about the guide, watch this video: <a href="http://youtu.be/UtkAXLTa76A">http://youtu.be/UtkAXLTa76A</a>.<br /><br /><br />If you would like to join the Teaching Respect for All online platform, visit <a href="https://en.unesco.org/respect4all/">https://en.unesco.org/respect4all/</a>.</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-36382209285219489162014-08-26T16:10:00.003-04:002014-08-26T16:10:50.948-04:00Poverty Point, Louisiana World Heritage Site<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/NRTdxJc3KOH58EdTzzRYjLgCbpqpXgc7CQSIf1a4EiEdZumb5QLJrUk97QAtt-3fpRPev7bLbzrZz_msZK3K1vzO1tSw-gPx_rFfxRND45l6hQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs129/1113399791641/img/78.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="620" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/NRTdxJc3KOH58EdTzzRYjLgCbpqpXgc7CQSIf1a4EiEdZumb5QLJrUk97QAtt-3fpRPev7bLbzrZz_msZK3K1vzO1tSw-gPx_rFfxRND45l6hQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs129/1113399791641/img/78.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">The Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point, Louisiana, became the 22nd U.S. site to be inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.&nbsp; Inscription is a reflection of the "outstanding universal value"&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">of Poverty Point, which "bears a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared."&nbsp;</span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><div align="left"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Poverty Point is an extraordinary prehistoric earthwork complex located in Louisiana's&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lower Mississippi Valley.&nbsp; It was part of an enormous trading network 3,000 years ago that stretched hundreds of miles across the North American continent.&nbsp; Poverty Point is a remarkable system of monumental mounds and ridges that were built into the landscape for residential and ceremonial use by a sophisticated society of hunter-fisher-gatherers.&nbsp; It is a masterpiece of engineering from its time as the major political, trading, and ceremonial center of North America and is an important archeological site.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;">In addition to the U.S.'s success in inscribing Louisiana's "Poverty Point" was the official recognition of several culturally and historically rich spots. The Incan road system Qhapac Ñan, Pont D'Arc caves in France, the Grand Canal in China, and Erbil Citadel in Iraq are just a few of the sites inscribed for their unique preservation of cultural heritage.</span></div><span style="background-color: white;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 26 official sites&nbsp;during the 38th session held in Doha, Qatar. To see photos of the sites or to learn more about their history, visit:<span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001jGnNUYx0vR7-Ku8XxILGli7pBQArZN4OVjkU7e3mzyRVqwlb090tUuBD_gLhTk4Mhuq9NsN7yBKRg9Z8fWHxXuc_JShG9hdMrymAWxwulLucpB96fnh8fWEvcwyCMHpwnA_gbwUzzGkMXlDxycC2GK44tP4q174maM3iIqspZ9pTfVxae_ZxMsrh3g90wv1XPvpoJvaa4rrvLRDaSYz0AqCFjnqaEW-Jl2r0xazZhRw=&amp;c=x6eQKsgOvbh5VY5TSu5X9lIZ4cEDTO1YfgBby6V9rhm2Y97v3utLWg==&amp;ch=ihLBeYrB9mVcU6CS_8C2Gwv9DzkIV_YEeUsXKCw1gY9fwaL_8fxATw==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://whc.unesco.org/en/<wbr></wbr>newproperties/date=2014&amp;mode=<wbr></wbr>gallery</a>&nbsp;</span></span><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><div align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Learn more about World Heritage:&nbsp;<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001jGnNUYx0vR7-Ku8XxILGli7pBQArZN4OVjkU7e3mzyRVqwlb090tUqT9ZTNiGzBDkSh0HJCUmftY2CE11YfnRfW5tnj1yy3VCrWbRbNdAnsmH90ycMnbBibKnCIOYqzrGbz7jWzA0BqJUSJZtTfspH6Q9ATii7lWjzwG8wvcqRg=&amp;c=x6eQKsgOvbh5VY5TSu5X9lIZ4cEDTO1YfgBby6V9rhm2Y97v3utLWg==&amp;ch=ihLBeYrB9mVcU6CS_8C2Gwv9DzkIV_YEeUsXKCw1gY9fwaL_8fxATw==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://whc.unesco.<wbr></wbr>org/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Learn more about&nbsp;Poverty Point:&nbsp;<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001jGnNUYx0vR7-Ku8XxILGli7pBQArZN4OVjkU7e3mzyRVqwlb090tUuBD_gLhTk4MrZR3euKL9wt2hfrzsSKk7g_9rIgpzlqAxI_dVpeYEb3llE73D7b1kQdmW5i4ZcIa0Fl_a06IzV_RwzdiHyLc06bI3EMWEspX5AC2OaQ86WCpJs6FTD5EmQoM8rp5BXRV&amp;c=x6eQKsgOvbh5VY5TSu5X9lIZ4cEDTO1YfgBby6V9rhm2Y97v3utLWg==&amp;ch=ihLBeYrB9mVcU6CS_8C2Gwv9DzkIV_YEeUsXKCw1gY9fwaL_8fxATw==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://www.nps.gov/<wbr></wbr>popo/index.htm</a></span></div></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-58113339001424597542014-08-08T16:08:00.002-04:002014-08-08T16:13:42.611-04:00New U.S. Permanent Representative Takes Office<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1T3tjG8ckQ/U-Ut1o1SX5I/AAAAAAAAC34/UUqiBx32TCQ/s1600/Nix+Hines+presents+credentialss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1T3tjG8ckQ/U-Ut1o1SX5I/AAAAAAAAC34/UUqiBx32TCQ/s1600/Nix+Hines+presents+credentialss.jpg" height="424" width="640" /></a></div><br />Ambassador Nix-Hines presents her credentials to UNESCO Director General Bokova. <a href="http://unescoeducation.blogspot.com/2013/07/crystal-nix-hines-nominated-as-us.html">Read more about the new Ambassador</a>.</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-5748867135015335672014-06-24T11:33:00.000-04:002014-06-24T11:33:24.657-04:00Thoughts on Reading "The Age of Culture" by Paul Schafer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div>I suppose I most fundamentally think of the world in terms of three elements:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>People: The seven billion humans, all probably descended from a small band that lived some 200,000 years ago. Evolved from previous manlike species, all people share most of their DNA. We tend to start out pretty similar biologically.</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Natural World: If you will, this is the realm of things studied by the natural sciences.</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Social World -- the things studied by the social sciences.</li></ul></div><div></div>I like to think of "culture" in the anthropological sense -- the complete pattern that characterizes the social world of a specific society.&nbsp;(See the defination at the end of this post.)&nbsp;Of course, my tripart view of reality is a product of my culture. Moreover:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A person's culture affects his/her body and mind. Thus the brain of someone speaking Japanese is actually wired differently than that of someone speaking English, and the bodies the children of Irish can identify me at a distance as a Yank (and have done so) in spite of the fact that my father was born in Ireland.&nbsp;</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>So too, we live in landscapes that are to greater or lesser extent artifacts of our cultures.</li></ul><br />We think of a person's behavior as determined by nature, nurture and the situation faced. In that construct, one's "nature" is determined by one's genetic heritage, and "nurture" by the way the potential in that nature has been helped to develop in one's youth. Identical twins raised identically in the same household will of course behave differently, say if one lives as a monk in the desert and the other as an artist in a well watered city.<br /><div></div><br />I like the analogous idea that the nature of a culture is determined in part by its heritage of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">memes</a>. But it is also determined by the way that those memes have been nurtured within the culture, and the environment in which that culture exists. &nbsp;Thus the meme of farming has been very widely shared among cultures, but farming has developed distinct institutional frameworks in different cutures, is done differently in different cultures, as it is done differently in different climates with different soils and different demands from consumers.<br /><div></div><br />Cultures evolve. Our culture is not like that of our ancestors in the 19th century, and more distant still from those in previous centuries. Just think how language has changed. Moreover, future cultural patterns are contingent on those of today and yesterday. Radio and television technology have swept the world, but programming is culture specific.<br /><br /><div></div>Much of culture in implicit. It is around as all the time but as invisible as the air we breath. Consequently efforts to influence the evolution of culture tend to be partial; often unrecognized aspects of culture interfere with efforts to reform political, economic and other institutions. Moreover, the ability to guide cultural evolution seems itself to be an aspect of culture (e. g.&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Giving-Up-Gun-Reversion-1543-1879/dp/0879237732">Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879</a></i> by&nbsp;Noel Perrin).<br /><div></div><br />We tend to be ethnocentric, assuming that other cultures function as ours does, or even that where we recognize cultural differences, our own culture is assumed to be superior (albeit without evidence of that superiority). This is not to say that all culture should be accepted as good and desirable. There are cultures that foster crime and violence, cultures where human rights of &nbsp;large numbers of people are not respected, and indeed, most cultures have their own Jerimiahs, revealing the sins of their own peoples.<br /><div></div><br />Cultures include the set of values held by people within the culture; these values change as part of cultural change. Only 150 years ago many people in the south of the United States went to war to protect the institution of slavery which they defended as good for the slaves and good for the masters; their values we can hardly fathom today. We tend to be tempocentric, assuming that the values of our time will also be those of other (future times) or that the values of our time are superior to those that will be held in our evolved culture in the future.<br /><div></div><br /><b>The Age of Culture</b><br /><a href="http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/261360000/261362394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/261360000/261362394.JPG" height="320" width="213" /></a><br /><div></div><br />I am reading&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Culture-Paul-Schafer/dp/0988129329">The Age of Culture</a></i> by D. Paul Schafer. The author starts from a recognition that current patterns of international development are marked by major problems. They are not sustainable. Conflict is everywhere and threatens to worsen. &nbsp;A large portion of the seven billion people living today are living in poverty. The worst aspects of that poverty are sickness &nbsp;disability, and early death, but lack of choice, lack of power, lack of voice are also to be fought. On the other hand, a tiny fraction of the world's people are hugely wealthy and &nbsp;rapidly accumulating more wealth. (Schafer perhaps fails to recognize the progress that has been made in improving the lives of the poor, as shown by the <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/report-2013/2013_progress_english.pdf">degree of success in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.</a>)<br /><br /><div></div>He perceives that we need to move toward a new order in which people are enabled to live a good life, rich in development of the body, mind, taste, and -- if you will -- soul, but not demanding of excessive material possessions and with a limited and sustainable environmental footprint. In one of the meanings of the word, Schafer seeks a world in which people everywhere would be cultured.<br /><div></div><br />Schafer lives in Canada and I live in the USA, both multicultural societies. Yet our countries are relatively homogeneous cultural when compared to say India or Nigeria. Schafer points out that in multicultural societies, cultures rub against one another, changing and being changed in the process, and such multiculturalism is itself a culture. As the world globalizes, it is increasingly useful to recognize all 7 billion of us living in a huge global culture.<br /><br /><b>Cultural Ages</b><br /><br />For thousands of years, before history, people lived in relatively small bands as hunter-gatherers. Schafer refers to theirs as a Hunter Culture, and I see similarities across many such cultures. The range over which a band might move would be limited. While they transformed their local environments, as compared with today the Hunter Culture had a limited footprint. Thus, for example, the rate at which other species were becoming extinct was much lower than today, forests still dominated more of the earth and the oceans were relatively untouched.<br /><br />I think of the 20th century as marking the end of an Age of Imperial Culture. While the Spanish Empire fell earlier, the 20th century saw the fall of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, British, Belgian, Dutch, French, Japanese and Soviet empires. These empires had been built around the advantages that the metropolitan power enjoyed by its early lead in the Industrial Revolutions -- what Jared Diamond termed <i><a href="http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/23285/three-graphs-show-where-the-educated-affluent-and-young-are-moving-in-the-dc-region/">Guns, Germs and Steel</a>, </i>plus fossil fuels in steam and internal combustion engines, the telegraph and telephone, etc. World War I, World War II and the Cold War contributed to the end of that epoch.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Schafer suggests that we currently live in an "economic age" but that we should strive to transform society so that people in the future may live in an "age of culture." He was trained as an economist and worked as an economist early in his career before moving into arts administration. I was trained as an engineer and worked as an engineer before moving into science administration. Perhaps that is why I tend to think of our current culture as having been importantly formed by centuries of technological innovation. I also think that since mankind has seen the world from space and learned to use computers to better deal with the diversity of ecosystems, our global culture is becoming much more aware of the planet on which we live and the complex ways in which our environment functions. Yet clearly, ours is an age in which governments, corporations and markets are key institutions, and economists play an important role in studying those institutions and helping define societies policies with respect to those institutions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The current epoch is characterized by a concentration of wealth.&nbsp;<i>Forbes</i> magazine estimates that there are 1645 billionaires in the world today with an aggregate net worth of 6.4 trillion U.S. dollars. This may be compared with <a href="https://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/news-and-expertise/research/credit-suisse-research-institute/news-and-videos.article.html/article/pwp/news-and-expertise/2013/10/en/global-wealth-reaches-new-all-time-high.html">estimated total global wealth in 2013</a> of&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">241 trillion U,S. dollars. Thus 0.00002 percent of the world's population has 2.65 percent of the world's wealth. On the other hand, <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview">according to the World Bank</a>,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c;"><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">1.22 billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day in 2010, and&nbsp;2.4 billion people lived on less than US $2 a day. Multinational corporations&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">unknown in previous ages,</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">owned by the relatively wealthy and managed by a bureaucratic elite, have largely escaped the control of national governments. Commerce has become global in many commodities.</span><br /><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">This is an epoch dependent on fossil fuels, and they are being depleted. The ecological footprint of this cultural epoch is creating global warming, melting ice caps and glaciers, raising sea level and flooding coastal zones, creating mass extinction of other species, destroying forests and top soil, polluting surface water, ground &nbsp;water and coastal zones, expanding deserts, and generally making the earth less livable for the species.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Maslow's Needs Hierarchy</b></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table><br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.svg/800px-Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.svg/800px-Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.svg.png" height="418" width="640" /></a><br /> <br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#mediaviewer/File:Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.svg">Source (and license information)</a><br /> <br /><br /><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">Schafer maintains that mankind should consciously change global culture seeking to achieve an Age of Culture. Here he seems to be using a definition in part similar to this from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">a : &nbsp;enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 18px;">b : &nbsp;acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote>I think he and I share a critique of the current epoch that can be explained in terms of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs">Maslow Needs Hierarchy</a>. &nbsp;Today a billion people are barely meeting their physiological needs and billions more are not meeting their safety needs, while a small fraction of the world's population is accumulating great wealth, enjoying most of the fruits of an unsustainable use of natural resources.<br /><br />Since the higher levels of Maslow's hierarchy do not require resource intensive production of goods and services, a shift in societies' processes could focus more on their achievement while diminishing mankind's global ecological footprint. Production of goods and services would be modified to make the use of natural resources sustainable. The new social system would share the wealth and income of the world more evenly, allowing the poor to satisfy physiological and security needs more fully, and to begin to fulfill higher order needs.<br /><br />Schafer feels that our current culture fails to act with sufficient attention to the whole person, the whole of society, and the whole global environment with which people and society interact. He sees our priorities as biased towards the "economic" -- increase in income and wealth, and not adequately taking into account sustainability nor the higher aspirations of mankind.<br /><br />In achieving his age of culture, Schafer then proposes a model of development, as shown in the following diagram:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Cultural Model of Development</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JhHbBdvyDY/U6hkXVARurI/AAAAAAAACzg/BZZft-NAnoA/s1600/culture+age.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JhHbBdvyDY/U6hkXVARurI/AAAAAAAACzg/BZZft-NAnoA/s1600/culture+age.png" height="360" width="640" /></a><br />He devotes a chapter in the book to "The Cultural Personality", focusing on the characteristics of people who will inhabit his desired Age of Culture. He is especially interested that they have a holistic view, working to develop their potential to the fullest. I very much like this focus. Let us ask what it is in their culture that makes people who they are; what is it in people that makes their culture what it is. Perhaps we call the latter "personality". I note that Orhan Pamuk in his great book&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Istanbul-Memories-City-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/1400033888#" style="font-style: italic;">Istanbul: Memories and the City</a>&nbsp;suggests that his city has a special feeling shared by its inhabitants, a feeling which has changed with time, and that other cities too have what we might call personality traits shared by their inhabitants. So it seems logical that to move culture in desired directions, people's personalities must change over time in supportive fashion.<br /><br />D. Paul Schafer in his book is concerned with the extent of specialization in our current culture. On the one hand, I feel that it would be great if people could be less single minded about work and money to spend more time on family, learning about others and improving their minds and spirits. On the other hand, trying to get Mozart to paint or write, or to get Shakespeare to play more music and dance more seems unwise. A good economist, a good engineer, or a good scientist needs thousands of hours of work to learn his/her profession, and needs to practice it to maintain the skill. I think specialization is &nbsp;here to stay in that sense.<br /><br />Schafer also devotes a chapter to "The Culturescape: Self-Awareness and Communities". It seems clear that people in the next century or two will live primarily in cities and towns. Indeed, finding ways to make urban living sustainable will be high on any agenda for human welfare. Making towns and cities livable, in the sense of places that not only allow people to fulfill their physiological and safety needs, but increasingly to fulfill higher order needs seems an obvious goal, but one that is clearly going to be difficult to achieve. We need not look back to the horrific cities of Dicken's England or Civil War New York; we can focus on the enormous slums in Africa, Asia and Latin America.<br /><br /><b>UNESCO</b><br /><br />UNESCO was founded in the aftermath of World War II to build the defenses of peace in the minds of men. In the terms used above, it was an explicit effort created by the allies to change world culture in such a way that wars would be less frequent and less brutal. Indeed, UNESCO has created a project promoting the culture of peace, and there was an International Year of the Culture of Peace. Federico Mayor, the former Director General of UNESCO (who wrote an introduction to Schafer's book) has on leaving his post at UNESCO created a Foundation for the Culture of Peace.<br /><br />More fundamentally, the "C" in UNESCO is for Culture. It has used its convening power to bring leaders together from all over the world to discuss culture, it has been a laboratory and clearinghouse for ideas about culture. It has fostered the creation of international agreements about the protection of cultural artifacts and heritage and created programs for the protection of world heritage sites and intangible cultural heritage, as well as the promotion of cultural expression. Importantly, it has sought to promote dialog among cultures to increase mutual understanding and decrease conflict.<br /><br />Author Schafer's thinking has been significantly influenced by UNESCO (as has my own). Moreover, UNESCO is the logical place for the ideas in this book to be discussed and further developed.<br /><br /><b>Reservations</b><br /><br />Schafer and I are both native English speakers from North America, of the same age, with somewhat similar life experiences. Our values seem quite similar, yet they may be different in many ways from the values of people in a century or two -- the people who will be living in the age for which Schafer wishes to influence culture. There is an inescapable contradiction in the fact that their future culture will be contingent on the decisions made now with our current value system, but they will have to live in that future with their own values.<br /><br />The question is most pertinent in Schafer's final chapter, "Culture and Spirituality: Key to Life and Living in the Twenty-First Century". Schafer suggests that he attains spiritual states through the arts, through experience with nature, and through physical exercises. Others, especially devotees to some religions, might find this chapter offensive. Remember that one of the divisions between some of the Reformation Protestant Churches and the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church was just over whether and how music, paintings, and sculpture were to promote religious spirituality. While I find visiting UNESCO's natural World Heritage sites (e.g. Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Everglades) to refresh my spirit, I recognize other people don't share those experiences. Perhaps most importantly, as Michael Brown implies in&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Owns-Native-Culture-Michael-Brown-ebook/dp/B002OSXPYE/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1">Who Owns Native Culture?</a></i>, indigenous people have all too often had their cultural preferences, and even their spiritual beliefs, run over by people from dominant economic and political groups.<br /><br />Culture is complex and implicit. In my opinion, many development efforts have gone awry having been bitten by cultural memes that had not been recognized or interactions among memes, people and environment that were too complex to predict. As Robbie Burns wrote:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men</i><i>Gang aft agley,</i><i>An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,</i><i>For promis'd joy!</i></blockquote>Governments and large organizations in the private and non-profit sectors are key institutions today, and they are responsive to people with wealth and political influence. While participatory democracy is more prevalent today than ever before, people are influenced by the media, educational institutions, political parties and other institutions -- all of which are led by people "with skin in the game". It is not clear how cultural change can be guided to achieve the ends Schafer desires when the change is likely to often be detrimental to the perceived interests of the people with influence.<br /><br /><b>Final Comment</b><br /><br />It is clearly not possible to do justice in a short post such as this to ideas that Paul Schafer has expressed at book length. Indeed, &nbsp;I am sure that I have not fully digested his thought myself. Read the book for yourself.<br /><br />I will leave you with a video in which 75 people of Cuban culture together play that quintessential Cuban song, <i>Guantanamera. </i>People proud of their Cuban heritage can differ violently over issues of politics and economics, but they can come together to make music. Perhaps cultural expression is a tool to move toward a culture of peace.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="watch-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="-webkit-user-select: auto; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; cursor: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Playing for Change - Guantanamera"><a href="http://youtu.be/2_Mz_U-MzC0">Playing for Change - Guantanamera</a></span></div><br />From the Merriam-Webster dicttionary, a definition of culture<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote>a : &nbsp;the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations<br />b : &nbsp;the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : &nbsp;the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time <br />c : &nbsp;the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <br />d : &nbsp;the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic <br /><br /></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-41415358596528440752014-02-11T15:29:00.001-05:002014-02-11T15:29:31.984-05:00U.S. libraries should make a major donation of books to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/biblioteca-de-alejandr%C3%ADa-panor%C3%A1mica-grande-1-oc-30-10-1024x647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/biblioteca-de-alejandr%C3%ADa-panor%C3%A1mica-grande-1-oc-30-10-1024x647.jpg" height="404" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina">The Bibliotheca Alexandrina</a>&nbsp;is a modern effort to recreate the fabled Library of Greco-Roman &nbsp;Alexandria. In Ptolomaic times it had the largest collection of books in the world. The idea of recreating the library came from the University of Alexandria in 1974, and a competition for the design of the buildings was organized by UNESCO in 1988.<br /><br />The modern library is trilingual, containing books in Arabic, English and French. In 2010, the library received a generous donation of 500,000 books from the National Library of France, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The gift makes the Bibliotheca Alexandrina the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world.<br /><br />It would be a wonderful gesture of good will to the people of Egypt for the people of the United States to make a comparable donation of books to the library. It would be especially great to do this now, while the Congress is denying U.S. funding to UNESCO; a donation to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina would show support for UNESCO's mission of building defenses of peace in the minds of men.<br /><br />While English language books would seem to be the obvious counterpart to the gift from the French, there might well be collections of books in Arabic in this country that would be welcomed.<br /><br />Gifts of books to the library should be carefully coordinated with the its staff. It is costly for a library to organize, store and catalog new accessions, and any library will want to select its collection. Ideally organizations such as the Library of Congress or university libraries might make contributions. Perhaps some organization such as the American Library Association or the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO might assume leadership in such an effort.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bibliotheca_alexandrina_egypt_038518-1024x682.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bibliotheca_alexandrina_egypt_038518-1024x682.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://arxxiduc.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/alexandria.jpg?w=500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://arxxiduc.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/alexandria.jpg?w=500" height="368" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-50394472617979762252014-02-08T13:45:00.001-05:002014-02-08T13:45:37.458-05:00The Monument Men led to UNESCO's Culture Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CreneTs7sGs" width="640"></iframe> <br />The movie described in the trailer and a book (<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Monuments-Men-Greatest-Treasure/dp/1599951509">The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History</a></i> by&nbsp;Robert M. Edsel) describe the efforts made by an American led Allies team to protect art treasures during World War II. The men involve risked their lives (and two died in the effort) to keep world heritage safe during combat. The effort continued to recovering the artistic treasures that had been appropriated by the Axis forces as spoils of war, or that had been confiscated as what they considered "degenerate art".<br /><br />In a radical departure from the practice of other victors in other wars, the western Allies after World War II chose to return the works of art that they had managed to rescue to their countries of origin.<br /><br />Of course, after the War the western Allies led in the creation of UNESCO, which had among its early functions helping the museum community in Europe to rebuild and reorganize. UNESCO quickly established international conventions to protect cultural heritage threatened by war, to prevent the international trafficking in stolen cultural heritage, and to protect World Heritage.</div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-85145768332953276192014-01-19T12:51:00.003-05:002014-01-19T12:51:39.756-05:00Secretary Jewell Announces Nomination of San Antonio Missions as World Heritage Site<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/davy4/aerial1950cc-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/davy4/aerial1950cc-1.jpg" height="496" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&amp;t=649">The Alamo</a>: Red lines show original size, on photo of current location</td></tr></tbody></table><div>Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the United States is nominating the San Antonio Missions, consisting of most of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park as well as the Alamo, for inclusion on the World Heritage List, which recognizes the most significant cultural and natural sites on the planet. &nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>“World Heritage Sites represent an incredible opportunity for the United States to tell the world the whole story of America and the remarkable diversity of our people and beauty of our land,” Jewell said. “The San Antonio Missions represents a vital part of our nation’s Latino heritage and the contributions of Latinos to the building of our country.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Jewell credited former Secretary Ken Salazar, who visited San Antonio Missions in July 2012 to announce the department’s intention to move forward with the nomination, for playing a key role in making it possible.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more of <a href="http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-nomination-of-san-antonio-missions-as-world-heritage-site.cfm">the press release</a>.</div><br /></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-1203575362816779742013-12-06T13:49:00.003-05:002013-12-06T14:26:10.872-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/LiteracyintheWorld_50530049f1ae6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="2560" src="http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/LiteracyintheWorld_50530049f1ae6.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://visual.ly/literacy-world">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-36254463780069589522013-11-25T13:49:00.000-05:002013-11-25T13:49:20.245-05:00Paducah, a UNESCO Creative City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Xq3xu2oScqk" width="640"></iframe></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-6851446692916429222013-11-19T14:32:00.002-05:002013-11-19T14:32:59.329-05:00Meeting of U.S. National Commission for UNESCO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Annual Meeting of the <a href="http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/">U.S. National Commission for UNESCO</a> is scheduled for Monday, December 16. &nbsp;The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. at the U.S. Department of State, George Marshall Conference Center. The meeting is open to the public.<br /><br />If you are not a member of the National Commission and plan to attend, you must inform the National Commission staff well in advance:<br /><br />phone: 202-663-0026<br />fax: 202-663-0035<br />email: dcunesco@state.gov<br /><br />Registration at the State Department will begin at 9:00 a.m. &nbsp;Because this meeting is being held in the State Department, staff will require your Birthday, Social Security and either Passport Number or Drivers License Number.<br /><br />You will need to enter through security at the 21st Street entrance of the main State Department building. &nbsp;(320 21st St NW, Washington, DC)<br /><br />This should be a productive and interesting meeting and I hope you will be able to attend.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OWEyV27OJDg/Uou8cZA0tII/AAAAAAAAChU/kMF6O4pXj9Q/s1600/Photo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="544" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OWEyV27OJDg/Uou8cZA0tII/AAAAAAAAChU/kMF6O4pXj9Q/s640/Photo1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-24033024736350399612013-08-03T15:18:00.000-04:002013-08-03T15:18:28.104-04:00Movement to make Seattle a UNESCO City of Literature<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">"At a reading to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Elliott Bay Book Company, local author Ryan Boudinot made a proposal "for the benefit of not just Elliott Bay Book Company, but the whole city." His pitch: "Let's seek formal recognition for Seattle as a UNESCO City of Literature." Boudinot explained that, as part of their Creative Cities program, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization launched the City of Literature designation to "recognize cities around the world that honor the literary arts through public and private means."<br /><br />"A few Cities of Literature that have been named since the project's inception in 2004 include Reykjavik, Dublin, Melbourne, and Iowa City.:" <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/07/30/lets-make-seattle-a-unesco-city-of-literature">Read more....</a><br /><br /><a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/07/30/lets-make-seattle-a-unesco-city-of-literature">And still more here...</a></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565336.post-68023861336426256282013-07-16T10:42:00.001-04:002013-07-16T10:42:37.577-04:00World Heritage University-Level Training Programs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here are some of the programs that I have found in no special order. If you know of others, please leave information in the comments.<br /><br />Check:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in the field of Cultural Heritage <a href="http://j.mp/127EE1a">http://j.mp/127EE1a</a>&nbsp;</li><li>UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in the field of Cultural Tourism <a href="http://j.mp/18odiwf">http://j.mp/18odiwf</a></li></ul><br /><b><br /></b><b>United States</b><br /><br />World Heritage in Practice: Paris- - University of Florida Design, Construction and Planning <a href="http://j.mp/JeopYv">http://j.mp/JeopYv</a><br /><br />Center for World Heritage Studies University of Minnesota<br /><a href="http://j.mp/It8Pcl">http://j.mp/It8Pcl</a><br /><br /><b>Japan</b><br /><br />World Heritage Studies, University of Tsukuba<br /><a href="http://j.mp/128IyYC">http://j.mp/128IyYC</a><br /><br /><b>Ireland</b><br /><br />University College Dublin offers a Masters degree in World Heritage Management <a href="http://j.mp/10sxJTT">http://j.mp/10sxJTT</a><br /><br />Trinity College Dublin, Cultural Heritage program<br /><a href="http://j.mp/15C66HK">http://j.mp/15C66HK</a><br /><br /><b>England</b><br /><br />Ironbridge Institute, &nbsp;Masters in World Heritage Studies<br /><a href="http://j.mp/1apSpPx">http://j.mp/1apSpPx</a><br /><br />The University of Cambridge has an MPhil and PhD program in cultural heritage, based at the Department of Archaeology<br /><a href="http://j.mp/13gmIWK">http://j.mp/13gmIWK</a><br /><br />The University of Cambridge also has a research program on Cultural Heritage After Conflict<br /><a href="http://j.mp/12SLR6N">http://j.mp/12SLR6N</a><br /><br />The University of Birmingham offers an MA program in World Heritage Studies<br /><a href="http://j.mp/1apXkQC">http://j.mp/1apXkQC</a><br /><br />MA International Cultural Heritage Management at Durham University<br /><a href="http://j.mp/12SNPE1">http://j.mp/12SNPE1</a><br /><br /><b>Germany</b><br /><br />Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Master in World Heritage Studies<br /><a href="http://j.mp/1aLBryN">http://j.mp/1aLBryN</a><br /><br /><b>Italy</b><br /><br />Masters in Cultural Heritage for Development at the Turin School of Development <a href="http://j.mp/13AHIdL">http://j.mp/13AHIdL</a><br /><br />University of Bologna, Italy,&nbsp;Master’s degree Course in science for the conservation-restoration of cultural heritage (SCoRe)<br /><a href="http://j.mp/15ixzyk">http://j.mp/15ixzyk</a><br /><br /><b>Other</b><br /><br />Master in Cultural Heritage Management at the French University in Egypt. in partnership with the IREST Unesco Chair in Cultural Tourism and Development at the University of Paris. <a href="http://j.mp/19JnalB">http://j.mp/19JnalB</a><br /><br />Heritage Management Course managed between the University of Kent in the UK and the Athens University of Economics and Business.<br /><a href="http://j.mp/13qlPqu">http://j.mp/13qlPqu</a><br /><br />The Future Generations Graduate School offers a Master's Degree in Applied Community Change with concentrations in Conservation and Peacebuilding.<br /><a href="http://www.future.edu/">http://www.future.edu/</a><br /><br />The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas and its Geospatial Modeling and Visualization?<br /><a href="http://cast.uark.edu/">http://cast.uark.edu/</a><br /><a href="http://gmv.cast.uark.edu/">http://gmv.cast.uark.edu</a></div>John Dalynoreply@blogger.com5